Installing Roundcube on CentOS 8

Roundcube is a web-based open-source email client that offers a modern and user-friendly interface. It allows you to access your emails through a web browser, making it convenient and easy to manage your email accounts.

Requirements

• A CentOS 8 server with root access
• Apache or Nginx web server installed
• PHP version 7.2 or later
• MySQL or MariaDB database server

Installation

sudo dnf update -y

sudo dnf install -y httpd mariadb-server php php-common php-json php-gd php-mbstring php-imap php-xml php-mysqlnd php-intl

sudo systemctl start httpd

sudo systemctl enable httpd

sudo systemctl start mariadb

sudo systemctl enable mariadb

sudo mysql_secure_installation

sudo mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE roundcube;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcube.* TO 'roundcubeuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

EXIT;

wget https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/download/1.5.4/roundcubemail-1.5.4-complete.tar.gz

tar -zxvf roundcubemail-1.5.4-complete.tar.gz

sudo mv roundcubemail-1.5.4 /var/www/html/roundcube

sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/roundcube

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/roundcube

sudo nano /var/www/html/roundcube/config/config.inc.php

Configure the database connection details:

$config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysqli://roundcubeuser:password@localhost/roundcube';

sudo systemctl restart httpd

1. First, update your system packages by running the following command:
2. Install the required packages for Roundcube:
3. Start and enable the Apache web server:
4. Start and enable the MariaDB database server:
5. Secure your MariaDB installation:
6. Create a new database and user for Roundcube:
7. Download the latest version of Roundcube:
8. Extract the downloaded file:
9. Move the extracted files to the web server document root:
10. Set the correct ownership and permissions:
11. Edit the Roundcube configuration file:
12. Restart the Apache web server:
13. Access Roundcube by visiting your server's IP address or domain name followed by "/roundcube" in your web browser. For example: http://your_server_ip/roundcube
14. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Roundcube setup process. You will need to enter your email account details to configure Roundcube to access your emails.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Roundcube on CentOS 8. Enjoy managing your emails with this modern and user-friendly web-based email client.